ALBANY — A coalition of education officials yesterday made good on their threat to sue Gov. Paterson over his decision to withhold $600 million in aid and tax relief from school districts across the state.

The groups — including New York State United Teachers and the state School Boards Association — charge the governor overstepped his authority by withholding aid promised in April by the Legislature in court papers filed in state Supreme Court in Albany.

Paterson dismissed the lawsuit as “a desperate attempt by special interests to put their needs above the needs of all the people of the state of New York.”